I'm still have the same dilemma with my one Silkie hen Dot. That poor girl just can't figure out this hatching business. For the life of her she can't stay on an egg ~ she ends up laying right next to it, duh. I keep taking eggs away from her, removing her to the other coop for the day so she's eating & socializing. But the minute I put her in the Silkie coop for the night she goes right back to the nest to sit on air. If she would ever figure it out I would let her keep a few, but she's a dingbat, Lol. I even trimmed her crest thinking it was a vision problem, not the problem.